Lucianne and Xandar were soaking in the bathtub when they both heard Xandar’s phone ringing in the room. Lucianne immediately tried to get out but was pulled back into her mate’s embrace. When the phone rang a second time, Lucianne looked at him with her doe-eyes and persuaded him to end their bath session.

He groaned and muttered, “If that turns out to be anything less than an emergency, I’m going to kill the caller.”

Lucianne then said, “Calm down, my darling. The call may be important.”

After wrapping his mate up in a towel, he kissed her cheek before uttering, “Nothing can be as important as my mate-time with...